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STRATEGIC FOCUS AND VISION OF SALINAS VALLEY FIVE CITIES, OUR COLLECTIVE IMPACT A partnership of Economic Development leaders from the Cities of Salinas, Gonzales, Soledad, Greenfield and King City and Hartnell College as the intermediary organization
The Salinas Valley Five Cities partnership of the Salinas Valley Workforce Development Intermediary Advisory Board Responds to economic recovery and resiliency: COVID -19-Broadband, Learning Impact and Recovery and Mental/emotional well-being, partners to ensure College and or Career Readiness of K12 and K14 students, champions and prioritizes educational attainment, cultivates social, emotional, and transferable skills for all, strengthening of our communities, and invigorating our future economy of the Salinas Valley.
EQUITY
NURSING EDUCATION AND INVESTMENT, FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES (FCCC) GRANT:
⮚ Focus: increase Bachelor of Science Nursing (BSN) degrees and address systemic racism and equity in nursing education in the Salinas Valley, $163K grant from FCCC
⮚ Impact areas: Career Pathways, Scholarships, DEI, Economic Prosperity o How did 5C help drive this effort? We conducted multiple stakeholder engagements to understand workforce gaps in the Salinas Valley with respect to this sector with City Managers Mendez, Wood, Adams, Slama as well as Economic Development Manager Myrick. We partnered with Dean Kaczmar and Dr. Sheppard of Nursing and Allied Health and our employers (who participated in the stakeholder engagement) to submit this grant application; co-writing and gathering support letters from the same stakeholders with a focus on the Salinas Valley community, economic and workforce development.
AGRICULTURE INNOVATION:
⮚ Focus: increase higher education attainment degrees supporting the agricultural industry sector ⮚ Impact areas: Career Pathways (Plant Science, Mechatronics), DEI, Economic Prosperity, o Hartnell College has established a 2+2 Year Education Plan for an AST in Agriculture Plant Science and BS in Agricultural Plant and Soil Science from CSUMB.
o Hartnell College has established a Mechatronics program with industry leaders to support the Ag Tech Workforce Initiative (ATWI) serving the local workforce in the Salinas Valley. o The ATWI is further supported by further philanthropy including Bank of America’s donation of $260K focus, as part of their commitment to advance racial equity and economic opportunity for communities of color disproportionately impacted by the prolonged pandemic.
o The training will support farm workers so they can move into jobs that require higher skill levels and provide higher pay in food safety technician, human resource technician, frontline agriculture supervisor and small - scale organic farm manager.
o How did 5C help drive this effort? The Hartnell College Foundation under VP Cruz’s leadership, Advancement and CTE offices coordinate and convene industry and philanthropic leaders to make them aware of the workforce gaps and needs we are seeing from education and local economic development perspectives.
Together, we utilize this shared knowledge to make informed decisions and target private and public philanthropic opportunities to help us further these initiatives.
COLLABORATION
WORKFORCE, EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT:
⮚ Focus: Measure T convening’s: 7 across the Salinas Valley came together culminating in a blueprint for services and programming in our new educational centers.
⮚ Impact areas: Community Development and Engagement, Career Pathways o How did 5C help drive this effort? The Five Cities convened, provided community space and facilitated discussion to ensure Hartnell College was informed as to community, industry and student needs per the new Centers across the Salinas Valley. Themes were echoed to Hartnell leaders for consideration and potential implementation. Multiple Hartnell College administration were present and participated in these convenings including Supt. President Dr. Hsieh; VP’s Cruz and Romero; Deans Ghous, Cowden, Kaczmar, Lofman; Directors Moreno, Walker, Armstrong, Arps, Gonzales and other administration and staff were present. ⮚ Focus: Ongoing collaboration between K12, the local workforce development board, the Salinas Valley Adult Education Consortium (SVAEC) and Hartnell College to address learning disru ption, career readiness, college attainment, workforce training
⮚ Impact areas: Communication, Collaboration, College and Career Readiness o How did 5C help drive this effort? The Five Cities invited Dr. Glenn and Mr. Fleming of Mission Trails ROP to multiple Five Cities meetings to discuss potential collaboration and partnership. Director Armstrong was invited by Mission Trails ROP to be a part of a monthly WBL practitioners group to represent the interests of the partnership including Hartnell College. Additionally, Directors Gonzales and Walker also represent the interests of the College per their respective departments. The Five Cities convenes and partners with SVAEC to identify pathways for adult student learners into Hartnell and maintains regular communication with the Monterey County Workforce Development Board (MCWDB) to inform Hartnell advisory and workforce leaders on labor trends and tools available to them to advance workforce efforts. ⮚ Focus: Career Readiness events
⮚ Impact areas: 8 career and job fairs + 400 students + 58 employers/presenters o How did 5C help drive this effort? The Five Cities including City Managers Wood and Adams co -convened with the workgroup of Hartnell College Career Placement, Director Gonzales, Mission Trails ROP, former K12 Pathways Coordinator Fleming, MCWDB Management Analyst Kershner, SVAEC Director Pagan to design, facilitate to bring together industry and students to inform them on current and future internship and job opportunities and how to prepare for them.
⮚ Focus: Western Food Safety Summit and AgTech Summits
⮚ Impact areas: Community Engagement, Career Pathways, Scholarships o How did 5C help drive this effort? The Five Cities Director has participated and supported the Industry Chair of these committees to inform, lea rn about workforce trends and fundraise for student scholarships in Agriculture. Economic Development Manager Myrick participated in a panel discussion per the Western Food Safety Summit.
⮚ Participant/representative voice: Monterey County WBL Community; Central Coast Better Careers Design Group; BACCC- Bay Area Apprenticeships group; Monterey County WDB; Social Policy Research & Associates o How did 5C help drive this effort? The Five Cities remains a focal point/voice in all of these efforts and an engaged thought partner in local workforce development efforts.
MENTORSHIP
CENTRAL COAST BETTER CAREERS DESIGN GROUP:
⮚ Focus: Modern Life Skills Mentorship program of middle school youth (immigrant youth), $500K total reward per the James Irvine Foundation; technical assistance from Third Sector ⮚ Impact areas: College and Career Readiness, Civic Engagement, DEI, Social/Emotional well-being o Five Key Success Elements (curriculum): Social-emotional well-being, career readiness, civic engagement and leadership development, academic success support and modern life skills including financial literacy and entrepreneurship
o A success team of caring adults will wrap around youth and support their success in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, rural locations
▪ Year 1: Salinas Valley and Pajaro Valley, 30 youth
▪ Year 2: North Monterey County and San Lorenzo Valley, 30 youth o How did 5C help drive th is effort? The Five Cities Director Armstrong and the Hartnell College Foundation Philanthropic Initiatives Officer Stoddard wrote the planning and implementation grant. Per previous stakeholder engagement led by City Managers Adams, Wood, Mendez, Slama and Economic Development Manager Myrick with industry and education, modern life skills of financial literacy, entrepreneurship as well as the career readiness, civic engagement and leadership were identified as critical to support youth and workforce development. City Manager Mendez additionally participated directly in a stakeholder interview per the planning grant.
APPRENTICESHIPS
CALIFORNIA APPRENTICESHIP INITIATIVE (CAI):
⮚ Focus: We filed our first CAI grant to support Early Childhood Education (ECE) on behalf of the Salinas Valley Adult Education Consortium, Hartnell College, employers and community based organizations, $493K award made from the CCCCO
⮚ Impact areas: Career Pathways, DEI, Economic Prosperity o ECE as evident by the pandemic is a critical workforce sector that not only supports education but also other critical workforce sectors serving the Salinas Valley.
o A Joint Apprenticeship Committee will convene to create standar ds for this state registered apprenticeship program
o Program mechanics:
▪ 2,000 hours of OJT over2 years and the completion of 41 credits over 3 years ▪ Students will earn 3 essential ECE permits for Assistant Teacher, Associate Teacher, and Teacher. ▪ The 3-year grant will serve 25 students with pre-apprenticeship pathways from Adult Education and eventually from K12.
⮚ We are also working with a local public transportation agency (s) to help them with both their apprenticeship and internship efforts (across the entire Central Coast) and also remained focused on development of a Food Safety apprenticeship and work has begun in this area.
o How did 5C help drive this effort? The Hartnell College Foundation per leadership from VP Cruz supports workforce development in the Salinas Valley and has collaborated on multiple initiatives to drive economic prosperity in the Valley. Growing our own workforce in the teaching pipeline and other critical workforce sectors to achieve economic prosperity is supported by the James Irvine Foundation. Irvine supported our development of a Career Hub to produce internships, job placement and apprenticeship opportunities. In accordance with the Five Cities mission, the Five Cities Director is leading and collaborates on apprenticeship development efforts with Deans Cowden(s) and Ghous (South County), SVAEC Director Pagan, Career Hub Director Gonzales and ECE Director and maintains a lens for local community, workforce and economic needs.
INTERNSHIPS
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OLLEGE INTERNSHIPS VIA HEALTH CAREER CONNECTION (HCC)
⮚ Focus: Hosting of HCC college interns between Nursing and Allied Health (NAH) and Salinas Valley Five Cities (SV5C) to increase more public health professionals (since 2017 with NAH & SV5C) ⮚ Impact areas: Career Readiness, Work -based learning, Civic Engagement. Our previous HCC interns are pursuing advanced degrees in Public Health and desire to serve the Salinas Valley community. o How did 5C help drive this effort? HCC interns interned with both NAH and the Hartnell College Foundation/SV5C. The internship provides another opportunity for mentorship, development of work skills, and an opportunity to learn about how local economic development efforts support the healthcare sector and its impact on communities. Of special note, three of the four are from Salinas; one is from N. Monterey County and three of the four are pursuing Masters’ degrees in Public Health.
HIGH SCHOOL INTERNSHIPS VIA FIVE CITIES OR K12 PARTNERS:
⮚ Focus: Internships for high school students directly with the Five Cities or K12 partner organization funding support from Five Cities or directly by Cities (SOARS), both are pending future funding. ⮚ Potential Impact areas: Career Pathways, Civic Engagement, Work Skills, Policy and Community Development o With K12 partner organization or Cities: up to 50 micro -internships (short-term) with high school students from the Five Cities.
o With Cities: up to 10 SOAR internships (long-term) that focus on civic engagement opportunities with the Five Cities
▪ Youth will develop communication, leadership, critical thinking and teamwork skills ▪ The relationship between K12, higher education-Hartnell College and the Cities will be strengthened and opportunities for youth will be broadened
▪ Cities will appreciate the perspectives of engaged youth and will have the opportunity to develop policy with them
▪ Youth will be better prepared in their career pathway upon entering higher education o How may 5C help drive this effort? Per the Five C ities partnership, Hartnell would take on an earlier opportunity to drive internships for K12 high school students in key industry sectors within the Salinas Valley.